that truth force inside each of us. i see it when a white mother recognizes her own daughter in the face of a poor black child. i see it when the black youth thinks of his own grandfather in the dignified steps of an elderly white man. it's there when the native born recognizing that striving spirit of the new immigrant, when the interracial couple connects the pain of a gay couple who are discriminated against and understands it as their own. that's where courage comes from. when we turn not from each other or on each other but towards one another and we find that we do not walk alone, that's where courage comes from. and with that courage we can stand together for good jobs and just wages. with that courage we can stand together for the right to health care in the richest nation on earth for every person. with that courage we can stand together for the right of every child from the corners to get an education that stirs the mind and captures the spirit and prepares them for the world that awaits them. with that courag